Khavizova, N. A. Man and Woman: Between Anthropogenity and Culturogenity of Gender

Abstract: In our modern Post-Modern age the idea of the absence of gender identity and changeability of gender selfidentification is growing more and more evident. Such attitude to gender is now possible because the internal logic of understanding gender only as a derivative of socio-cultural processes made some researchers narrow down gender to physical properties and others to turn gender into some kind of simulacrum. In the author’s opinion, gender was discredited in both cases. According to the author, gender can be understood as an anthropological style represented in culture, social life and everyday life of men and women. Such approach allows to see all the picture of relations between male and female beginnings in each person. The core of these relations is gender-related life strategies. The latter is shown as the system of preferences and the difference between masculinity-femininity of women and masculinityfemininity of men. Such approach can add additional shades to interpretation of male and female archetypes and ways of realization of the main spiritual values of the mankind.

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